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Representation ID: 19417

Received: 30/01/2009

Respondent: Campaign for Better Transport

The word 'peripherality' is frequently used to give a negative impression of Rother, with the need of big new roads to bring it 'closer' to London. Rother District is where it is, and infrastructure investment of the sort that is often suggested, is unaffordable, would hugely damage local economies and wreck the natural assets that are a significant part of those economies. It would also undermine efforts to build on the considerable strengths of the area - outstanding countryside, unique natural environments and cherished heitage.

It is important to reflect that geography is less of a consideration in a context of the growth in 'home-working' possibilities.